Summary

A picture of a nude young woman from the breasts up engaging in a porn film is shown. Brik explains to the reader that someone once asked him how he saw America. Brik explains that he said that each morning, he wakes up and sees his wife. Rora recounts to Brick how he and several other journalists visited a brothel after one of them scored an important interview, but how Rora just couldn’t go through with forcing a young, drugged girl to have sex with him for money. Brik and Rora find the Jewish center, where they speak with a man named Chaim Gruzenberg about Brik’s book. They ask Chaim about the Averbuchs, to which Chaim responds there is an old, frail woman still living named Roza Averbuch. Roza, Chaim explains defensively, should not be bothered due to her physical and...